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American Museum of Natural History. Department of Ornithology. Archives.

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Archives collections belonging to and managed by the Museum's Department of Ornithology.

Found in 198 Collections and/or Records:

Dwight collection card file

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn188
Scope and Contents

Card catalog for M.T. Dwight collection.

Dates: undated

E. Thomas Gilliard collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn190
Scope and Contents Expedition records including equipment lists, field notes, catalogs and journals for travel in New Guinea, British Guiana, New Britain, Venezuela, Nepal, Little Tobago, West Indies, Colorado, Canada, the Philippines and Colombia; manuscripts and notes for published and unpublished work; biographical and educational information and honors; press clippings; photographs, negatives and lantern slides; correspondence; newspaper clippings; personal papers; 8 volumes; bird lists; lecture notes;...
Dates: 1936-circa 1970s

Ecuador Expeditions collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn161
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and list of birds, departmental meeting minutes, summary of expenditures

Dates: 1912-1922

Elsie M.B. Naumburg notes

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn71
Scope and Contents

Handwritten notes created by Naumburg on various expeditions in South America

Dates: 1912-1917

Emil Kaempfer collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn131
Scope and Contents

Notes, correspondence, write-ups of collected material, bibliographic lists, Brazilian field notes, bibliography compiled by Naumburg, notes on Caatinga species compiled by K. Duffin for L. Short, Elsie Naumburg's locality cards, Lester L. Shorts Caatinga project, data compiled by Kathleen Duffin

Dates: 1925-1927

Ernest Thompson Seton Paintings collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn54
Scope and Contents

Pencil sketch with tail feathers, wash drawings, and lithographs.

Dates: circa 1890-1900

Eugene Eisenmann papers

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn8
Scope and Contents

Correspondence includes American Ornithologists Union materials, Eugene Eisenmann transfer files, bird checklists, bird field notes.

Dates: 1950s-1970s, undated

Expeditions, collectors, collections, catalogs, field notes card file

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn32
Scope and Contents

Detailed typed card catalog index, includes field notes, geographic cross-references and AMNH catalog numbers for various collections arranged by collector. Catalogs for collections now owned by AMNH. Unpublished manuscripts and data on deposit at AMNH.

Dates: 1870s-1970s

F. G. Carnochan collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn219
Scope and Contents

list of F.G. Carnochan collection. Tangahyika Territory, 1934-1935.

Dates: 1934-1935

Fahnestock South Sea Expedition correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Orn185
Scope and Contents

Correspondence regarding expedition, expense accounts, shipping receipts, news clippings

Dates: 1939-1941, 1996